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Always enjoy a visit to in the village of Saltaire, Yorkshire. Currently showing David Hockney’s fantastic ipad pictures from his exhibition ‘The Arrival of Spring’.

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2019-12-28

Faithful servant Martha Brown nursed Emily who died 1848 at the Parsonage in Martha would recall this dreadful day to her sister & sister’s children with whom she later lived for many years at nos. 16/17 Victoria Rd,

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2019-12-19

Jnr enjoyed the applause for his magic lantern slideshows of local scenes & his travels abroad in Victoria Hall There’s no record of a children’s show though.

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2019-12-16

Crowds paying respect at the memorial by renowned local sculptor J H Cawthra. It was moved from Nab Wood Cemetery to Crowghyll Park. memorial is in the grounds of the

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2019-11-11

There’s no truth in the rumour that giant City goalkeeper William Henry Foulke was related to the Salt family of The 6’4”, 24 stone giant “Fatty” was a great

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2019-10-28

bought two cannons from the as features for Park. One of the many stories told is that one was fired 1805 during the Battle of Trafalgar. Another is that they were melted down for the war effort. Mmm

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2019-10-22

In 1886 public funds were used to send 5 children, all bitten by a rabid terrier, from Great Horton to They were successfully treated by Louis Pasteur, who died 1895. The disease had killed in saves lives.

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2019-09-29

1907 a benefit concert was held in the Congregational Sunday School for petite Ada Fieldhouse 22, who had lost her right arm in an accident at Mill. With the proceeds & compensation, Ada acquired a drapers at 24 Shirley St.

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2019-09-28

Designed by Lockwood & Mawson, architects of part of the 6th floor collapsed at the 1873 Legrams Mill 1908 & crashed to the basement. Five mill girls were injured & one worker died. Now student accommodation.

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2019-09-25

To celebrate his birthday in 1857, commissioned 3 trains to take 2,600 of his millhands to the largest art show in Britain, the Art Treasures Exhibition in born 1803

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2019-09-20

Theories why the 1903 statue of has its back to include to prevent the face being hit by stray balls & to symbolise looking at other horizons. But why place him in the line of fire from a cannon?

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2019-09-03

All you needed to know in 1956 about the Glen funicular A top speed of 20mph, tuppence to travel up & a copper to come down. Still a treat for & families.

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2019-08-26

His clothes left on the bank, William Donnell 22 of 4 Constance St was fished out of the by New Hirst Mill weir 1879. Unemployed, it was said he was depressed, but not at the inquest at the Rosse as was a crime until 1961.

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2019-08-16

No small thanks to these two millgirls, became an award winning tourist destination in the 1980s. Why the campaign to sell & all the attractions was so successful remains a popular Salts Talk.

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2019-08-14

Thomas & Mary Ann Cooper & 8 children lived in the original thatched Bracken Hall in 1850. They were the first to sell teas on Glen when stepping stones were the only way over the at & where sozzled poet John Nicholson slipped for the last time.

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2019-08-12

that the older liked playing random tricks. Once when walking in with friends, a gypsy tried to sell him a broom. He bought the lot, gave one to each startled pal & the rest to gawping children.

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2019-07-28

11yr old William missed out on the Amelia & George St parties. A at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II 1953 in Westminster Abbey, he grew up to be the allotment-holder Lord Wallace of

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2019-07-27

Stages in the life of hirsute (1803-76), founder of UNESCO World Heritage Site. Even Titus had a swift half to cool down on a day like today.

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2019-07-25

Sir hospital to the rescue after a terrible accident in four years after the formation of the 1895 Cycling Club. https://t.co/wIVFQAAI33

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2019-07-13